I made the best chicken for supper tonight. It was so good I think I need to share!
Quick Oven Fried Chicken Strips
INGREDIENTS:
1 pound chicken tenders
Greek or Mediterranean seasoning or other seasoning blend (I used Greek Seasoning--it's SO good!)
1/4 cup white wine
2 tablespoons spicy brown mustard
Italian seasoned bread crumbs
PREPARATION:
Sprinkle chicken tenders lightly with Greek seasoning. Prepare a cookie sheet with foil sprayed with non-stick cooking spray (I just used the Release one w/out spray). Mix wine and mustard in one bowl. Put bread crumbs in another. Dip chicken in wet ingredients and then roll in bread crumbs.
Place on cookie sheet. Preheat oven to 475° put chicken in and bake for about 12 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through. Serves 4.
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Friday, July 20, 2007
"MY OTHER TOY HAS TITS"
That's what the giant bumper sticker said on the back of a truck in front of me today. I was so offended. Like, I felt like my mother because my mouth well open and I started saying things like "Why. I never...." and "Who does he think he is?!" Vic was offended too, which actually kind of surprised me...I mean, he should have been, but he didn't even chuckle or anything.
It got me thinking. With all of the focus right now on people, and rap music, saying the "N" word, the "B" word, and the "H" word (which Al Sharpton says is "Ho" but I prefer thinking of the bad "H" word as "Hillary" HA!), words have the meaning we assign to them. If I take offence to the word bitch, then I have let someone control me with their words.
Think about the word "gay." It's my aunt's middle name. It did not used to mean homosexual, it used to mean happy and sunny. But we have transformed the meaning and a lot of people use it trying to hurt others. BUT, if other's are not offended by it, it looses it's power. The same with claiming the word FAT, which I personally love to use. I'm fat. When someone calls me that, even when I can tell they are trying to be rude, it is still a word that I like...and it doesn't bother me. That word doesn't hurt. I'm sure that some African American people have done the same with the "N" word. They have claimed it to take it's power away. But it is a word that offends me. When I hear it used, I cringe because to me it is the a worded that is filled with hatred.
But then, we have thoughts/ideas/statements like the above mentioned. What kind of looser thinks that is cool in any form or fashion? I feel so sorry for any woman that encounters this creep. That is so degrading to women. One brought him in to this world and another one probably gave birth to his children. SO, where I am really not offended by words...and do believe that letting something like this get to me is giving him some power over my feelings...I also think that sometimes we just have to take a stand for what is good and decent. And this is not. So, preach on Brother Sharpton, I smell whatchur steppin' in with this one and am going to make a conscious effort to watch my mouth.
That's what the giant bumper sticker said on the back of a truck in front of me today. I was so offended. Like, I felt like my mother because my mouth well open and I started saying things like "Why. I never...." and "Who does he think he is?!" Vic was offended too, which actually kind of surprised me...I mean, he should have been, but he didn't even chuckle or anything.
It got me thinking. With all of the focus right now on people, and rap music, saying the "N" word, the "B" word, and the "H" word (which Al Sharpton says is "Ho" but I prefer thinking of the bad "H" word as "Hillary" HA!), words have the meaning we assign to them. If I take offence to the word bitch, then I have let someone control me with their words.
Think about the word "gay." It's my aunt's middle name. It did not used to mean homosexual, it used to mean happy and sunny. But we have transformed the meaning and a lot of people use it trying to hurt others. BUT, if other's are not offended by it, it looses it's power. The same with claiming the word FAT, which I personally love to use. I'm fat. When someone calls me that, even when I can tell they are trying to be rude, it is still a word that I like...and it doesn't bother me. That word doesn't hurt. I'm sure that some African American people have done the same with the "N" word. They have claimed it to take it's power away. But it is a word that offends me. When I hear it used, I cringe because to me it is the a worded that is filled with hatred.
But then, we have thoughts/ideas/statements like the above mentioned. What kind of looser thinks that is cool in any form or fashion? I feel so sorry for any woman that encounters this creep. That is so degrading to women. One brought him in to this world and another one probably gave birth to his children. SO, where I am really not offended by words...and do believe that letting something like this get to me is giving him some power over my feelings...I also think that sometimes we just have to take a stand for what is good and decent. And this is not. So, preach on Brother Sharpton, I smell whatchur steppin' in with this one and am going to make a conscious effort to watch my mouth.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
For those of you who have NOT seen the movie Shag--this will not mean nearly as much to you.
I love it, something I've probably told yall before. Jamey's sister, Jill, introduced me to it somewhere around 1989-90. It's still my favorite movie. It's one of very few that I can watch over and over again and still be completely delighted. It's a coming of age movie about 4 girls who go on a last fling before one of them gets married. They tell her and their families that they are going to Fort Sumter to learn about their "heritage," but instead take her to Myrtle Beach to "be wild and meet boys." Anyway, it's always been a dream of mine and a few dear girlfriends to go to Myrtle Beach.
So that brings me to this Friday, when Vic and I are leaving for Topsail Beach, NC for 6 days. We are going with his family-they have a beach house there. I just got online to see what I might want to do while there and just thought I'd check to see how far Myrtle Beach is from where we will be...it's only 2 hours! So, then I was looking at the events in MB, SC and found this:
http://www.sunfunfestival.com/
The Sun Fun Festival has a big part in the movie and I just can't believe that it really exists!!!! I so thought it was just something made up for the movie! We have actually missed the main part of it...but they are still doing a "concert series." Maybe we will put on our Shaggin' shoes....ha ha ha!
Anyway, even though it is not the way I dreamed of going to Myrtle Beach--I always knew I'd see it for the first time with my friends...I am still going to check it out. I'm 100% positive that it is nothing like the movie or my imagination; but just to say that I have been there will be exciting!
It'll be the MOST FUN!
I love it, something I've probably told yall before. Jamey's sister, Jill, introduced me to it somewhere around 1989-90. It's still my favorite movie. It's one of very few that I can watch over and over again and still be completely delighted. It's a coming of age movie about 4 girls who go on a last fling before one of them gets married. They tell her and their families that they are going to Fort Sumter to learn about their "heritage," but instead take her to Myrtle Beach to "be wild and meet boys." Anyway, it's always been a dream of mine and a few dear girlfriends to go to Myrtle Beach.
So that brings me to this Friday, when Vic and I are leaving for Topsail Beach, NC for 6 days. We are going with his family-they have a beach house there. I just got online to see what I might want to do while there and just thought I'd check to see how far Myrtle Beach is from where we will be...it's only 2 hours! So, then I was looking at the events in MB, SC and found this:
http://www.sunfunfestival.com/
The Sun Fun Festival has a big part in the movie and I just can't believe that it really exists!!!! I so thought it was just something made up for the movie! We have actually missed the main part of it...but they are still doing a "concert series." Maybe we will put on our Shaggin' shoes....ha ha ha!
Anyway, even though it is not the way I dreamed of going to Myrtle Beach--I always knew I'd see it for the first time with my friends...I am still going to check it out. I'm 100% positive that it is nothing like the movie or my imagination; but just to say that I have been there will be exciting!
It'll be the MOST FUN!
